Sentences with phrase «first plot point»

It's the first plot point of the story that has many emotional twists and turns.

Not exact matches

The first five or so seasons of HBO's show contained plot points from George R.R. Martin's «A Song of Ice and Fire» novels, and for the most part book readers kept those details from leaking into mainstream discussions.

Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Rios, a corrections specialist with Bravo Company, Regional Training Center - East, plots his first point during the night land navigation event at the 2012 U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy, Wis., July 17, 2012.

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

No, the only thing we can do is read and learn and discuss the first three acts, and then, based our understanding of those three acts, the plot structure up that point, the way the characters act, and how we think the conflict might resolve, improvise the fourth act to the best of our ability.

Recap culture bends toward the same talking points, and a critique of this season will certainly be «fan service» — i.e., by delivering what viewers want (Jon resurrected, Ramsay Bolton and Walder Frey killed, etc.), George R.R. Martin and the showrunners have moved away from the ruthless plot turns that made Game of Thrones stand out in the first place.

Unlike franchises overexplained to breaking point, the sequel repeats the no - frills plot of the first outing with no further depth — which means that as a film, it needs to work as an engine, primarily, to scare us into submission.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

... A murder investigation (led by Colton Haynes), and also a dizzying array of new plot points that distract from what works the best about this standout first episode: the crippling battle between politics and paranoia.

A friend pointed out that the first set piece was good not just good because it worked, but because it also moved along the plot.

First the dagger only turns back time for a few minutes so you really never get a sense of what the point is — until the big plot reveals itself in the last part of the movie.

The film has its problems, including a slow middle where it tries - unsuccessfully - to suddenly recap plot points and resolve character motivations from the first three Craig films.

Almost on cue — just the first example of where you can see the plot points right in front of you — her car is sideswiped causing it to flip down an embankment and crash.

The designers cleverly placed fast travel as a plot point with The Riddler, simply called Enigma in our first encounter with him... jamming the Batman's signals that control some of his gadgets.

In the months leading up to seeing the film I had watched the unapologetic Regal Cinemas First Look preview for «Game» over a dozen times, and it gave away nearly every major plot point.

And while the plot brings the story of rogue — almost invincible — entities wiping out various interstellar crews full circle, one wonders what the point of the entire enterprise was and who was clamoring for such an effort in the first place.

That being said this film took a while to get me on the hook, the first twenty — thirty minutes felt very disjointed and unsure of the direction it was going in, but once we reached that point that instigates the revenge plot that we're waiting for the film kicks into high gear and becomes the bone crunching - ly revenge film that we expect from this trilogy of films.

Screenwriter Leigh Whannell makes the film easily accessible to newcomers so don't worry if you missed the first one as you'll quickly catch up to all the relevant plot points.

That is, the plot can be fitted on a box of matches with room to spare: in the future a car race is held in which the point isn't necessarily to be first at the finishing line, but to kill as many pedestrians as possible along the way.

It almost entirely duplicates the same dramatic notes and plot points of the first «Star Wars» film for both good and bad effect.

Kaya Scodelario shows up midway through as the first female entrant into The Glade, which you would think could turn into an interesting plot point and a shift in the routine of this society but they do absolutely nothing with it and she quickly becomes background noise.

If you're keeping score, by the first major plot point Smith, like any good dinosaur Republican, has gone after affirmative action African - Americans, lisping homosexuals, and women with a genuine moron's aggressive lack of insight.

The trailer reveals the plot point that she must recover five mystical items in order to escape, which feels more like a video game than a movie (not the first time one of Snyder's films has invited that comparison).

The first big plot point comes across at an odd distance, more like a news story we'd see reported on TV than as a tragic event dramatized in a big political thriller.

Consider this a spoiler warning because Sonny, who's a real [redacted], is going to discuss plot points in this review, including in the [redacted] ing first paragraph.

At one point during shooting Wiseau wanted his car to appear to fly off the roof because, as Sestero recalls the first - time filmmaker saying, «It's just possible side plot.

No roundabout plot point is too convoluted, and that includes the entire narrative arc of this first installment of the last chapter.

The amount of story trying to be told in Deadpool 2 slows the film's pace ever so slightly in the first act, as screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick set the table with a lot of plot points that asked to be explored.

It's questionable, because many of the film's plot points indicate that, even if Garland had begun adapting the film after the first book, he knew the general arc.

What has been sold as the first of a very large franchise, Fantastic Beasts delivers a terrific story, not overly - dependent on the Harry Potter series, but that will most likely set up some major plot points in the Potter tales that we aren't aware of yet.

Luckily for them, the first major point of difference here from the previous mainline titles is the way that the plot and gameplay are grafted together.

Without talking plot points, as much as the first half of the movie is heavily influenced by Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, the second half is equally influenced by David Lynch and Robin Hardy.

After stopping himself from spoiling a plot point, he realizes that first - time viewers are probably not listening to him — and assesses those who are to be «really strange!»

Space Stone: The Space Stone was the very first Infinity Stone to make an appearance in the MCU, via a quick glimpse of the blue cube in Thor's post-credits scene, before becoming a major plot point (and part of Red Skull's schemes) in Captain America: The First Avefirst Infinity Stone to make an appearance in the MCU, via a quick glimpse of the blue cube in Thor's post-credits scene, before becoming a major plot point (and part of Red Skull's schemes) in Captain America: The First AveFirst Avenger.

Then came The Bourne Ultimatum, which featured atrocious dialogue (a first for the series) numerous plot points that made no sense, and a narrative that was little more than an addendum to the second film.

This likable flick serves up not only big laughs that ensure an uproarious first viewing but lots of little sight gags and subtle plot points that demand and reward repeat viewings.

At first, Split appears to give away one of its major plot points early.

Black Panther will apparently make his first appearance in Captain America: Civil War, and rumor has it Wakanda will be a plot point as early as next year's Avengers movie.

Ok, so the first trailer for Taken 3 ruins a major plot point, just putting that out there before I start discussing why said plot point makes me not want to bother with the film at all.

Rocky's lack of boxing - movie plot and false drama actually serves it well as a first movie; it establishes a lot of characters, from Adrian to Apollo Creed to Rocky's trainer Mickey (Burgess Meredith) and louse of a best friend (and prospective brother - in - law) Paulie (Burt Young), who will return to the series for years to come — characters who are so beloved by Stallone that even their absences from later sequels must be marked as plot points.

Objectives covered: Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size Identify lines of symmetry in 2 - D shapes presented in different orientations Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry Describe positions on a 2 - D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

If you give your students practice during the first half of the year with analyzing the details of a text by looking closely at the plot, vocabulary, syntax, structure, and point of view through multiple reads, you are setting them up to be able to do this more independently during the second half of the school year.

Plot and interpret points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane to represent real - world and mathematical situations.

(Note that Camy mentions using the Black Moment for the Disaster, but many sources say to limit pitches to the first third or so of a story, so this might instead be the first turning point in the plot.)

I do nt (sic) know what type of audience she was writing to but I was not in it... It was like I was reading a vocabulary section from the SAT... No plot, no character development...» The, presumably, young woman is right, The Maytrees is not for her nor for anyone else who is young enough to be always looking forward and never looking back, who has never spent moments lost in bitter - sweet memories of times past or wondered how life might have turned out if a different path had been taken; nor is it for someone who has never stopped to wonder what the point of life is in the first place.

Many others have no self - confidence and give up the first time someone points out a plot hole, burning their manuscripts and crying that they have no talent.

In an earlier blog post we talked about the importance of developmental editing and why the focus on big - picture stuff — structure, book - spanning issues like plot or organization, character development, dialogue, and that sort of thing — needs to come first, before you spend too much time worrying about the finer points of style and wording.

All three are points that upset the main character's life: the first opens the door to your story's plot, the second is the first step along the plot's path, and the third closes the -LSB-...]

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Lay out your story structure in the form of a synopsis, with key plot points labeled as such, and also send the first chapter.